From federation to fabric: IAM’s evolution

In the modern day, we’ve come to expect that our various applications can share our identity information with one another. Most of our core systems federate seamlessly and bi-directionally. This means that you can quite easily register and log in to a given service with the user account from another service or even invert that […]

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From federation to fabric: IAM’s evolution

In the modern day, we’ve come to expect that our various applications can share our identity information with one another. Most of our core systems federate seamlessly and bi-directionally. This means that you can quite easily register and log in to a given service with the user account from another service or even invert that […]

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CISA, NSA Issue New IAM Best Practice Guidelines

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) recently released a new 31-page document outlining best practices for identity and access management (IAM) administrators.  As the industry increasingly moves towards cloud and hybrid computing environments, managing the complexities of digital identities can be challenging. Nonetheless, the importance of IAM cannot […]

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CISA, NSA Issue New IAM Best Practice Guidelines

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) recently released a new 31-page document outlining best practices for identity and access management (IAM) administrators.  As the industry increasingly moves towards cloud and hybrid computing environments, managing the complexities of digital identities can be challenging. Nonetheless, the importance of IAM cannot […]

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Zero Trust Data Security: It’s Time To Make the Shift

How do you secure something that no longer exists? With the rapid expansion of hybrid-remote work, IoT, APIs and applications, any notion of a network perimeter has effectively been eliminated. Plus, any risk inherent to your tech stack components becomes your risk whether you like it or not.  Organizations of all sizes are increasingly vulnerable […]

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Why Your Success Depends on Your IAM Capability

It’s truly universal: if you require your workforce, customers, patients, citizens, constituents, students, teachers… anyone, to register before digitally accessing information or buying goods or services, you are enabling that interaction with identity and access management (IAM). Many IAM vendors talk about how IAM solutions can be an enabler for productivity, about the return on […]

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Securing Cloud Technology in a Growing Threat Landscape

Cloud technologies are becoming more and more popular. Many companies shifted their workloads and their IT infrastructures into the cloud. The advantages are clear: more flexibility and scalability, less admin overhead and often cost savings. But with those advantages also come many risks. Recent studies have shown several threats cloud technologies face. As data transfers […]

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How to Create Identity and Access Governance In and Across Clouds

In March 2021, we posted a three-part series about whether cloud-native identity and access management (IAM) controls are good enough for an enterprise. Many of the points we raised at that time are still valid. However, the industry has developed and learned a lot since then. More companies and analysts now recognize cloud identity and […]

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Modern Identity and Access Management Makes a Difference, Especially at a Mega-Scale

As businesses embrace more remote users and a hybrid work model, managing user identity and access is more important than ever. Add authentication for millions of third parties and non-employees, and thousands of applications and IoT devices to the mix and you start to understand how important identity and access management (IAM) is.  What Exactly […]

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IAM Secures the New, Perimeter-less Reality

Necessity may be the mother of invention, and it also drives change. To remain competitive in 2021, companies had to transform rapidly. Today, many of us work from home. Remote and hybrid work models have become the new normal. But what about security?  In one recent survey, 70% of office workers admitted to using their […]

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